Thursday 24 November 2011

Cinema in a bookshop

Here is something for the weekend when it's grey outside and perhaps if you are a little hungover. Nomad Cinema is back springing up in unlikely places to surprise and entertain. The wandering cinema spent the summer popping up in
parks across London and showcasing some fantastic films from screening Fight Club in an old boxing ring to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at Brockwell Lido.

Since it is now winter, and fecking freezing, Nomad has decided to rest its hump (their logo is a camel) in a closed Book Etc store in Whiteley's shopping centre near Queensway. A little weird perhaps but I think this deserves a mention because this weekend alone they are showing Dawn of the Dead, Tangled, E.T. and Ferris Beullers Day Off on Sunday. Something for everyone non?

On its website it says that tickets range from £4-8 which may not seem like a deal but if you spend over £10 on food at one of the restaurants in the centre you get one cinmea ticket for free. To tempt your tastebuds there are all the usual suspects like Ask and Cafe Rouge, a Latin restaurant called Chillis and a slightly suspect one that calls itself "Chi Wok, Pasta Rossa, and Cafe Licious" which "is a unique offering of three separate restaurants housed in one". Is it just me or does anyone else not understand why that would be appealing? They also have a Yo Suhi! and a gelato place (which actually also sells ice cream for the cinema) so, you can eat well and then go and drink Vodka in Book Etc. Oh sorry did I forget to mention there is a pop-up Vodka bar, from which you can get drinks as well as your popcorn. The ultimate combination.

Here is the link for more information and all those pesky things like times and dates.

Would it be wrong to go and watch Disney's Tangled and drink Vodka or would that just make it an amazing weekend?

If anyone does head over there let me know what you watched and how you found it.

Thanks and happy Friday.

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